FYI, I first encountered the name "Doumeki" with one of my students in Japan. She was kind of a terrible student, but pretty charismatic when she chatted with me between classes. When I first saw her name tag, I instantly memorized the name (which is unusual because I am awful with names and knew the actual names of perhaps 3 of my couple thousand students). In Japanese, it's spelled "百目鬼" which roughly translates to "100 eyed ogre". I thought that was just the coolest family name ever and it stuck with me.

In an unrelated thought, I've always wondered why native Americans often have their names translated to meaning, so they are all like "Sitting Bull" instead of Tatanka Iyotake or whatever, but Asian names which also have meaning never are translated. Kind of weird.

I would imagine it's the difference in the relationship to English speaking cultures.

Americans didn't do a whole lot of translating their words into the native languages, but rather had the natives translate their words into English. So from the English speaking perspective their names were translated along with everything else and it just became how it was done.

On the other hand, trade with the far east was hella valuable to Europeans, and those who went there to trade learned the local language rather than forcing everyone to speak theirs.

Talking about ogres... There's a snack you guys are undoubtedly familiar with, called onigiri. Am I correct in assuming this is "oni" like ogre / demon and "giri" like a debt, so the snack's an ogre / demon's debt?

While one could certainly make a pun of it (and I have in fact made a comic with a character based on said pun), that is not how it is written (鬼義理).

Instead it is written: お握り. The "o" part is added to many words to make them more important (other words sometimes use "go" instead). Kind of roughly gets translated to "honorable" or something like that, though it doesn't really translate to English because if you start calling everything honorable it sounds bizarre. The "nigiri" part is the noun form of the verb "nigiru" which means to squeeze something in your hand. It refers to the way they are made where you basically get a handful of rice and squeeze it into whatever form you want it to be. Usually a ball, oval or triangle.

There's some park in the US (forgot where exactly) that's said to be haunted after a caretaker was tasked to transfer all buried there to another place. Besides graverobbing, he also put several corpses into one coffin, so he could reuse the other coffins.

Soo many things soooo horribly wrong. Worst one is the guy with the giant laser rifles as arms. How does he eat? How does he dress himself? How does he wipe his butt? Lesser wrong but still fun is the guy forcing that grenade in the rat's mouth. Talk about overkill!